Returning to the bedroom from the living room, the toothache seemed to have lessened, he leaned on the head of the bed and turned on the TV in the bedroom, habitually tuned to the Hiraizumi News Channel, the broadcast news broadcast had just ended, it was the prime period of advertising time, and a woman with a pill box was blowing hoarsely about the miracle of curative effect. He found that the advertising girl was very similar to someone he knew, and after thinking about it, he finally remembered that she was a bit like Xu Deyu, but much younger than Xu Deyu who was brought back from the city yesterday.

Naturally, his thoughts turned to Xu Deyu. Yesterday was the most recent contact, in the car she sat side by side with herself in the back seat, she was basically turning her head to look out the window, but she looked carefully at this miserable woman during the intermittent chat with her, she should not have noticed.

The reason why he looked at her was to find Xu Deguang's shadow from her face. Xu Deguang, who has been dead for twenty-five years, has blurred in his memory, leaving only a graduation photo, Xu Deguang happened to stand in front of him, his mouth slightly open, as if he was saying something.

I couldn't find a trace of his brother on Xu Deyu's face...... But he found that this woman actually looks good, with a small nose, a small mouth, and small eyes that match very well, plus white and delicate skin, there is a classical beauty. At that time, he thought that if she straightened her hair well and put on an elegant cheongsam, she would still be very temperamental. But her somewhat messy hair and overalls top ruined everything...... It made her look a little haggard and old.

That's right, since Sun Dunquan gave a detailed account of her misfortune, he began to pay attention to her, of course, out of sympathy, but also a little guilt. He remembered that he had been to the Xu family, the house where she lived now, and he must have seen her, but he couldn't remember what she looked like at that time.

The unfortunate incident twenty-five years ago brought a turning point to several people, and the most unfortunate one was, of course, Xu Deguang, who died, and he and Tang Yikun were nonsense. Tang Yikun didn't mention it, he was actually lucky to have been delayed for a year. Because with his level at that time, there was basically no possibility of being admitted to Fudan, and his goal at that time was to be provincial, and he never thought of applying for Fudan. It was a year of angry repetition that had raised him by at least thirty points. The most important thing is that if it weren't for that incident, it would be impossible for him to meet Lu Yaozu and become a bedmate, or a bunk bed. As a result, he and Lu Yaozu became best friends, and they were moral friends. At first, he hated Lu Yaozu's unconsciously big words, and hated his sense of superiority that he couldn't hide. But then I found out that the kid had a lot of good points, and there were many things to learn from him. It was in his junior year that he learned about Lu Yaozu's family history. No wonder, with his family background, Lu Yaozu is very, very low-key. He was certainly the only one among his classmates who knew about Lu Yaozu's family history, and Lu Yaozu even took him to his house in Yanjing to meet his famous but dying grandfather...... He graduated and entered the brilliant headquarters (which had not yet been restructured into an enterprise group at that time), largely due to Lu Yaozu, who still attached great importance to friendship, in order to be able to meet often (Lu entered the × department in the envious eyes of his classmates), he had to go to Yanjing to work by himself...... He admitted. If it weren't for Lu Yaozu, it would be difficult for him to get to where he is today. He was always a little unconvinced, but reason told him that this was the case.

Life is like that, one thing will benefit some people. It will make others unlucky. There is often a connection between the good and the unlucky......

Since he went to visit Xu Deyu's house accompanied by Sun Dunquan, he found that Xu Deyu consciously avoided him, instead of taking the opportunity to get close to him. After he has seized certain powers, he always meets the latter kind of people. And she's clearly an example. This increased his affection for her. And the sight he saw at her house that day also made his heart ache. The poverty standard is different in each era, and in the summer of his sophomore year, he participated in the social investigation team organized by the student union and went to western Sichuan, which made him see what it means to be a disciple of the four walls. In the stockade where he went. That kind of poverty is universal, and the teachers and students of the social investigation team are generally shocked, and they have the most intuitive impression of the imbalance in economic development.

He firmly believed that after more than 20 years of development, that kind of extreme poverty, if it existed, would not be as widespread as it was then. After graduating, he and several classmates from the social investigation team at that time (including Lu Yaozu) got in touch with the village, and supported more than a dozen children in a targeted manner. But he admits that when the village solved the problem of food and clothing, there was already a higher standard of living elsewhere, and society was constantly moving forward in this way, and the gap between the rich and the poor would always exist, and it would always be a relative difference. I remember when I was a child, the factory introduced tap water into the joy of every family, and now it seems to be very ordinary, and now any resident of the Red Star Factory will definitely not be excited about the tap water into the house, they are pursuing a larger house with more perfect functions, a family car, a holiday trip, and a child to study abroad...... Of course, there are also a very small number of workers who are still struggling with poverty, such as the worker who committed suicide due to economic despair. The poverty he saw at Xu Deyu's house that day was relative, but it was enough to shock him. There is not a single decent electrical appliance in the house, the furniture is old-fashioned, the floor is cement, in terms of the nature of its owner, the house is not tidy, the only thing that comforts him is the books, newspapers and magazines placed everywhere, indicating that the owner of the house is a person with a rich spiritual world, and a person with a full spiritual world is powerful and worthy of respect.

Then he began to pay attention to Xu Deyu's article, and found that this woman's article was well written, especially those short editor's notes, which were accurate and sharp, not at all like what she appeared to be......

Yesterday afternoon, he was recruited by Lu Yaozu, not in the office, but in the guest house of the municipal party committee. Like himself, Lu Yaozu also lives in a free hotel. The conversation was casual, and he thought that Lu Yaozu might have encountered something annoying and wanted to find a friend to talk to. He understands this feeling, because he has been like this for the past few years, and it is difficult to find a partner who can chat willfully. So when Sun Dunquan took his wife to Binjiang to play, he chatted with Sun Dunquan until late every night, which was very pleasant.

Maybe now he plays the role of Sun Dunquan. Yesterday afternoon's chat with Lu Yaozu was also very pleasant, basically did not involve work, in addition to talking about the history and customs of Pingquan, it was to talk about the classmates everywhere in the stars, Lu Yaozu obviously had a wider connection with his classmates than him, and many of his classmates Lu Yaozu who lost contact with him knew his whereabouts. finally asked about his work, this is the asymmetry between the two, Lu Yaozu can lightly ask about his work again and again to express concern. He can't, unless he says it himself. He then talked about Liao Junwei and had the right to chat. Lu Yaozu said, it's good to grasp enterprises like you. Now, he said, it looks a little wronged. Lu Yaozu sneered, which temple has no ghosts who have died to death? You're doing the right thing.

It's all the tone of the superior to the subordinate. When did it become like this? Needless to say, they were all close friends in college. It's the same when I graduate to Yanjing, every Sunday, as long as I don't work overtime, I will always get in touch with each other for a meal and talk about everything. Even girlfriends have to take it out to each other to "evaluate" or show off. The other party to each other's marriage is the main force to help, and Lu Yaozu and Lu Yaozu became each other's best men...... But it slowly changed its flavor later, especially after Lu Yaozu became the director, that kind of intimate relationship could not be found, Lu Yaozu remembered many things he said to him, and thought it was very incisive, one of which was particularly impressive: Don't make friends with the leader, the leader can be your friend, but you can't.

Lu Yaozu is very right. This sentence has benefited him immensely.

In their class or even that class, if measured by traditional standards, Lu Yaozu was the best. Some people remember Lu Yaozu's success in his family, and Lu Yaozu's success must have the influence of his family. But he doesn't think so. That guy is extremely strong in his heart, and behind his great ambition and excellent organizational and propaganda skills is his good at learning, self-discipline, and moral ethics. The two are very similar in this regard, so they can become friends with each other in morality and wrongdoing. Some people one-sidedly believe that the so-called children of high-ranking cadres are all intoxicated with the sound of dogs and horses, and he has also had such a misunderstanding. Especially when I was in college, I read a novel based on the corruption case of the former secretary of the Yanjing Municipal Party Committee, which portrayed the son of the powerful secretary of the municipal party committee as enviable and disgusting. When he learned about Lu Yaozu's life experience, that concept was partially overturned, Lu Yaozu's family education was extremely strict, much stricter than that of ordinary civilian families, and during the four years of college, whether it was food, clothing or others, it was completely impossible to see that he had a deep background.

He saw the thick book of "Pingquan County Chronicles" on Lu Yaozu's desk, which should be a local chronicle cultivated during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or a vertical version. Lu Yaozu's study of the Hiraizumi Chronicles is certainly not a study of history, but a study of the past and the present, and now local leaders are learning to run a city, and gradually understand that it is more important to excavate the historical and cultural characteristics of a city and find out its distinctive places than to blindly build high-rise buildings. Therefore, it became inevitable to read local history. It's just that Lu Yaozu began to think about urban construction so quickly (he stubbornly thought that Lu Yaozu was preparing to do this when he studied local history), or did he think a little unexpectedly, didn't he think about how to really control power?

He had a hunch that Hiraizumi's new city plan was an unavoidable knot between him and him, and he was completely on the side of the red star, but of course the other party was on the height of the whole city. Many contradictions between people come from differences in standpoints, and behind the standpoints are practical interests. Different positions determine different ways of thinking, just like his treatment of Liao Junwei, few people really understand his intentions.

At the end of the chat, Lu Yaozu said that the only "business" yesterday was Lu Wei. Lu Yaozu said, "I learned about the person you introduced, it's not bad, and I'm going to use it......"

Since Lu Yaozu said so, it is a foregone conclusion. He didn't say a word about it, and since Lu Yaozu decided to use Lu Wei, all the intersections between him and Lu Wei should be interrupted. He understands the rules.

He declined Lu Yaozu's invitation to dinner, went to the book market, bought a few more books, and then brought Xu Deyu with him, and then saw Lu Qi when he returned to the factory, got out of the car and told her about Lu Wei. He didn't say a word before, but now he can, he wants to promote this, so he told Lu Qi in advance, the purpose is to let Lu Wei, who has never met, have a mental preparation, the first meeting is very important, and the difference between being prepared and unprepared is huge.

Why should you recommend Lu Wei? It was completely subconscious at the time. Since Lu Yaozu wants to change the secretary, let's give Lu Wei a chance. But he basically didn't know Lu Wei. If it weren't for returning to Red Star, if Lu Qi hadn't talked about his younger brother in his office, he wouldn't have known that there was such a person. Therefore, he did this completely because of Lu Qi.

Thoughts inevitably turned to Lu Qi. Today, he will not consciously avoid this woman who has been buried deep in his heart. Since returning to Hongxing and Lu Qi to become colleagues, in the dozens of long nights spent alone, whenever Lu Qi came out of his heart, he always did not hesitate to drive him away. Anyway, he has a lot of things to think about, and he can't finish thinking about it.

Lu Qi must have been the first woman he ever liked. When I liked her, she was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl who always wore a ponytail. Wearing a light gray embroidered lace top, quiet, beautiful, sitting next to him, he could smell the good smell of her. They don't really have much communication, and they don't even have much to learn. He just likes her, likes her beauty and tranquility, and likes the way she thinks about things with her cheeks up.

After the liberal arts and sciences were separated, he often pretended to be looking for someone to wander at the door of her class, hoping to see her. Just a look is enough, what else?

The reason why he said like instead of love is because he now finally understands the difference between liking and loving.

It wasn't that he didn't think to inquire about her school and write to her. But that idea was quickly dispelled. By that time, he had already understood that he would not have anything to do with her. Under the influence of Lu Yaozu, he initially established his life goal, at least he would not return to Pingquan, but it was obviously unlikely that she would go to Yanjing or Shanghai. Lu Yaozu is right, the so-called success is to fantasize about the future in a down-to-earth manner. The first is to be down-to-earth, and the second is to have fantasy, both of which are indispensable.

Later in his long life, Lu Qi was never really kicked out of his memory. Always stubbornly emerging from a corner. Especially in dreams, laughing, reminiscing, talking and even crying with him. He wondered why this was happening. They've only been at the same table for a year. I haven't interacted alone, and I haven't had any interactions beyond classmates, but my memory is so stubborn. By that time, he had already established contact with some of his classmates who remained in Hiraizumi. He learned from them that she had returned to Red Star after graduation and had returned to her parents. But he just couldn't resist asking about her, because he had already established a relationship with Fang Lan at that time. In the years that followed, he returned to Red Star countless times, because it was his home, where his parents, brothers and sisters lived, worked and lived, and it was impossible for him not to go back. When his position in the Brilliant Group could already allow the upper echelons of Red Star to come forward to receive him, he chose to keep a low profile, and every time he went home, he was like a thief, quietly entering and quietly coming out.

He wanted to know her present, her family, and especially her husband. I really want to see which man married Lu Qi. Faintly, he was a little envious of the man. He was convinced that she would do well, and that the sights of her sad and weeping in those dreams were unrealistic dreams. She used to be an excellent girl, and now she must be an excellent woman. As long as she is doing well, it is enough.

But life is so wonderful, in the sixth year after losing his wife, he returned to Red Star again as the leader of Red Star. What made him feel strange was that when Qi Jianmin officially notified him of his new job, the first thing he thought of was her. So, he met her, exactly like in the dream, she was graceful, radiant, and full of happiness from the outside to the inside.

That's good.

But Tang Yikun ruined him for his reception. He never expected that Lu Qi would be the same as himself, and he was also silently thinking about each other.

What a fuck! It doesn't get much more distressing than that.

The perseverance and restraint he had cultivated over the years made a difference. He succeeded in pulling back a train that was about to slide off the tracks. He knew that if he indulged himself, he would completely lose her the day he got Lu Qi, and he would lose not only Lu Qi, but many, many more. He didn't have the courage or the power to do that, and that wasn't to love her, but to ruin all her happiness.

Just let it all pass. However, he will use his way to care about her and help him, including Lu Wei's affairs.

His thoughts finally turned back to the relatives of the red star, and he was not worried. Except for some rumors about his brother, but it has nothing to do with him, he knows very well who his brother is, fortunately, he is about to retire, and there is nothing to add to the chaos. But the sister-in-law proposed Youdao's future, yes, Youdao is his only nephew, traditionally speaking, a lone seedling of the Tao family. Of course, he will care about Youdao's future, but he will not pull out the seedlings to help them grow. In addition, the sister-in-law does not approve of the marriage of the Tao, and has been verbose with him twice, he thinks that the reason for the sister-in-law's opposition is not tenable at all, the girl surnamed Wang has seen it once, not very beautiful, but it is by no means ugly. As for the character, he didn't know, and there was no need to know. Youdao's liking is the biggest reason, including brother and sister-in-law, who have no right to interfere with Youdao's happiness. At the request of his nephew, he officially talked to his sister-in-law about this issue, obviously, Bai Shuxian was very concerned about his persuasion, now that he is on the right track, he will definitely eat his nephew's candy this year.

Brother-in-law Wu Shi'an is something he has always admired, stable and strong, and the relationship with his sister is good, his brother-in-law's family is not rich, but it is certainly not poor. Originally, he didn't need to worry about it, but a few days ago, Meiling came to him and said if she could let Shi'an do some business? He asked what kind of business it was, and Meiling said that it was to buy some materials for the factory, and he immediately refused. Meiling said in a rambling manner that there are many relatives of the leaders who make a living here, and they are not big, that is, the procurement of low-value consumables in the agency branch factory, making 1.8 million yuan a year and earning some pocket money. They can do it, why can't we? He asked if the idea was proposed by Wu Shi'an? Meiling said no, it was her friend who reminded her, and her friend said that your brother is the number one, and it's not a smooth ride if you want to do that, who dares to stand in your way? She said that she discussed it with Shi'an, but Shi'an didn't agree, so she talked to her brother. He said that it would be good if it wasn't Shi'an, so I said that Shi'an wouldn't be so confused. Your friends are harming you and me, and you haven't heard about what's going on in the factory lately? Are you in the water in your brain? The above clearly requires leading cadres not to engage in power rent-seeking, and I fight corruption with one hand and connive at my sister to engage in corruption with the other?

Meiling was very unhappy. There is no way to be unhappy, he will never make such a mistake, and this determination was made at the beginning of his tenure......

Only Fang Lan had never caused trouble for him.

There was a period of time before he got married, he was particularly prone to colds, Fang Lan joked, this is over, married a sick number. Because he prefers to treat his illness with injections rather than medicines, she learned to take injections for this. But after getting married, he rarely got sick...... After Fang Lan left, a little thing would evoke his nostalgia for his deceased wife, she was the softest part of his heart, he didn't want to touch but always touched it.

Did I betray Fang Lan? He tried to recall the bits and pieces of his deceased wife in the sound of the rain outside the window, and before he knew it, the toothache disappeared, and the drowsiness disappeared completely. (To be continued......)